Arm yourselves with the arguments: why it’s right to back the Palestinian resistance.
Here is a selection of articles from the Solidarity archives on the foundation of Israel, its links to imperialism and Palestinian resistance to it.
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More than 100 union activists and Palestine supporters are blocking a ZIM truck on the Melbourne waterfront.
ZIM is an Israeli shipping line. Its ship was due to dock this afternoon but has been “delayed”.
Union power! ✊🏽🇵🇸✊🏽
It’s Christmas Eve and there are thousands on the streets of Naarm/Melbourne for Palestine.
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They keep bombing, we keep marching. Free Palestine!
Last night around 200 mostly high school students raged through the streets of Sydney, calling for the sacking of rape apologists Christian Porter, Linda Reynolds and Scott Morrison.
Read our report here:
#auspol
#March4Justice
@tilda_tweets
A fantastic turnout at less than 24 hours’ notice to confront the Nazis of the National Socialist Movement outside Parliament in Melbourne.
Anti-Nazis outnumbered them by more than 10 to one, leaving them cowering behind massive police lines.
We now need to build a wider
Labor's fawning over the death of Liberal senator Jim Molan is sickening.
He was a disgraceful, racist warmonger and the world is a better place without him.
* He earned the name Butcher of Fallujah during the Iraq War.
* He shared Nazi videos.
* He fomented war with China.
Easily 50,000 on the streets of Naarm/Melbourne.
Not let’s turn this anger and energy into strikes, walkouts and blockades that really hurt the bosses and Labor.
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Albanese Albanese
Palestine won’t go easy!
@AlboMP
we won’t vote for you again!
@AustralianLabor
you are in trouble! You are cowards siding with war criminals!
#FreePalestine
@KosSamaras
HAFF is Albo’s camouflage. It’s a sop to avoid taking real action on building public housing — something Labor could do without a vote in parliament and which could be funded by scrapping Stage 3 tax cuts and nuclear submarines. Attacking the Greens is a cynical diversion.
Every time Albo says it can't be afforded because of the deficit, the reply is: "Drop the stage 3 tax cuts."
They will cost $184.2 billion over 7 years - $137.9b of that going to people on $120,000+.
JobSeeker, COVID sick pay, free RATS - tax the rich, don't give them more.
You don’t speak for many of us.
Israel is the colonial bully — when have you unequivocally condemned the pogroms, the destruction of olive groves and water supplies?
Victory to the Palestinian resistance! ✊🏽🇵🇸✊🏽
Australia unequivocally condemns the attacks on Israel by Hamas including indiscriminate rocket fire on cities & civilians.
We call for these attacks to stop & recognise Israel’s right to defend itself.
Australia urges the exercise of restraint & protection of civilian lives.
A powerful vigil in Naarm/Melbourne tonight organised by Teachers and School Staff for Palestine.
Great to see a contingent of CPSU members joining the event.
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Hundreds join the Unionists for Palestine rally at the gates of Patricks in Naarm/Melbourne.
The plan was to stop an Israeli Zim ship … but the owners turned tail and decided not to dock.
Thanks to the
@MaritimeUnionAU
members who had said they would not cross a community
Hundreds of fired-up climate activists marched through Melbourne today demanding an end to fossil fuels in a protest organised by
@XRebellionAus
.
They heard from speakers including Greens leader
@AdamBandt
and Solidarity’s Tami Gadir.
Lautan massa rakyat Papua tumpah di jalan-jalan di depan kantor DPRD Wamena (03/07). Massa rakyat yang terkonsolidasi dalam Petisi Rakyat Papua (PRP) di Wamena menutut rezim penjajah agar segara Cabut Otsus, Tolak DOB dan gelar REFERENDUM.
Media very excited about swing to Libs in fire-ravaged Cobargo.
1) The Lib candidate was a local
2) There were just 616 formal votes
So the swing to the Libs was ... wait for it ... ~39 people.
#auspoI
#EdenMonaro
2500 refugee supporters are rallying in Brisbane today, calling for 20,000 more places for Afghans fleeing the Taliban and permanent visas for all Afghan refugees in Australia and in detention on Nauru and in PNG.
@racqld
@RSMeanjin
#Afghan_lives_matter
“Almost 400,000 people are on social security payments in locked down Greater Sydney and are not eligible for weekly disaster payments, despite many losing work in areas like retail and hospitality.”
Time for an
#80aday
minimum payment for all.
The jail term against Violet Coco has been overturned.
A victory for resistance and solidarity.
A government that allows new coal and gas is the real criminal, not those who protest for the planet.
Unity against colonialism on the streets of Naarm/Melbourne.
600+ at the rally for Palestine called by the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance.
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Walpiri elder from Yuendumu, Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves, issued this statement after the acquittal of NT police officer Zachary Rolfe today over the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker.
#BlackLivesMatter
Now
@SenatorThorpe
speaks to the Naarm/Melbourne rally, offering solidarity from Indigenous people.
Some have taken a breather from rallies this weekend but there are still thousands here.
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Workers at the Melbourne Hanes warehouse, who distribute Bonds, Champion and Sheridan sheets, have gone on strike in their fight against extreme casualisation.
Join their picket line at 31-39 Permas Way, Truganina.
Four unions in Victoria are encouraging their members to walk off government jobs if the Dan Andrews government bans duck hunting.
Instead of talk about duck hunting, unions should be doing something about the 60-hour weeks on construction sites.
Fantastic win for Woolies workers in Wyong, NSW. Striking pays!
✊11.2% increase over 3 years; 17.4% for level 2 workers with 6 years' service
✊80:20 ratio permanents to casuals
✊Casuals can convert after 12 months
✊Redundancy cap doubled
#righttostrike
#joinyourunion
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Students from the four major universities in PNG say the signing of the Defence Cooperation Agreement must not go ahead as it gives powers to the United States and its military personnel.
Australia’s wealthiest 1% are 61% richer than they were before the pandemic and have pocketed $150,000 a minute over the past decade, according to new analysis by Oxfam Australia.
Tax the rich.
#auspol
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Socialists and the fight to end the frontier massacres.
@paddygibson
explains the key role unions and the Communist Party played in preventing the punitive expedition planned in Arnhem Land in 1933.
Read more:
Over 1000 people packed the streets of Port Kembla on Saturday as unions, Labor Party members, anti-war activists and the local community marched to oppose plans for a nuclear submarine base—and the $368 billion nuclear submarines as well.
Vigil under way in Melbourne to demand Germany and other wealthy countries
#FreeTheVaccine
from corporate monopolies.
Less than 5% of people in most low-income countries have received COVID-19 vaccines, while rich countries are reaching 80% or more.
Morrison on the
#coronavirus
pandemic:
⭐️State borders? Open them now.
⭐️Schools? Get the kids and teachers back to class.
⭐️5G conspiracy rallies? It's a free country.
⭐️Footy crowds? Bring it on.
✊
#BlackLivesMatter
and refugee rallies? WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!
Up to 500 people staged a snap protest at Port Botany in Sydney last night, significantly disrupting the Calandra owned by the Israeli shipping company, Zim.
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Lidia Thorpe has been calling out racist hypocrisy all her life. She deserves the solidarity of every activist, every anti-racist and every progressive.
#StandWithLidia
#AssociateWithLidia
Support the activists fined by Sydney cops for fighting for income support for stood down workers and the unemployed.
Sunday showed the cops are there to protect the Liberals, not workers.
@AusUnemployment
@akac_workers
Vote No, step up the action as Coles moves for a non-union agreement at the Smeaton Grange distribution centre in NSW.
"Every union will be weaker if Coles thinks it can get around union organisation at Smeaton Grange."
Read our take on how to win:
The Age throws more mud at
@SenatorThorpe
but when you read the article, it’s clear she was doing a righteous job, defending an Indigenous man from deportation.
No more smears.
#standwithlidia
When we say that the liberation of Palestine is directly linked to the uprising of the Arab working class across the region, this is a hint of what we mean.
Viva Palestine!
Jordan is witnessing the largest wave of solidarity with Palestinians in generations. It peaked two weeks ago with a v successful general strike demanding a ceasefire and the severing of Jordan's relations with Israel.
Great turnout by refugees at parliament today, demanding Labor keeps its promise of permanent visas to those on TPVs and SHEVs.
And let's not forget those on bridging visas, still in PNG or on Nauru, or stuck in Indonesia.
Pix by
@rac_sydney
A very useful article. China is definitely not socialist. But it’s important to see that it never was.
The 1949 revolution brought the CCP to power over the workers and peasants. This was state capitalism.
Don’t let nostalgia for a Maoist golden age in by the back door.
Not only is China’s economy capitalist, the state now rules in the general interest of capital. The CCP’s claim that China is socialist is simply not borne out by reality. Its false promises to guide the world into a socialist future must be rejected.
In an amazing show of solidarity, locals walked and cycled past Common Ground social housing in Sydney to support tenants locked in their building under COVID laws.
They are demanding more support, no over-policing and a rent suspension.
@MsSaffaa
Australia among the rich countries that think that intellectual property rights are more important than saving lives.
Down with vaccine nationalism.
No one is safe until we’re all safe.
What is
#TRIPSwaiver
?
Simply waiver on Trade and Intellectual Property Rules (TRIPS) for COVID-19 vaccines at
@wto
.
If your country opposes it, you need to demand your leaders stop blocking this measure. It is ethical, humane and frankly will also keep you safe!
There’s been an outcry over this mural in Melbourne showing a Ukrainian and a Russian soldier hugging, as if it is pro-Russia.
But this is how wars end, with soldiers refusing to fight for their capitalist bosses.
No to Russia’s invasion. No to NATO.
Labor risks extending the conflict in the Middle East.
Instead of grandstanding with the US, Labor should break ties with Israel and end military exports.
But they won’t … which is why we need to be building a bigger mass movement in our workplaces and communities.
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Joint statement from the governments of the United States, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.
BREAKING NEWS: Students are occupying the chancellery building at the Uni of Sydney.
They are demanding that cuts to medical science are scrapped.
via
@FacebookWatch
🎧PODCAST🎧
Up to 14,000 refugees are trapped in Indonesia, unable to build their lives locally and barred from coming to Australia.
@margaret_tmsinc
, a
@racvictoria
activist, has just returned from a factfinding trip and tells us what she found.
@moylecroft
@SwannyQLD
Mate. Labor is the party. Labour is the movement. The book looks at how the ALP and the unions contributed to the situation. So that's why the title says Labour -- because the blame has to be shared by the ACTU and the party.
We talk to Celeste Liddle about the growth in heavy-handed police tactics, the need for social support for those under lockdown, and why when it comes to vaccination, taking hesitant people on a journey to persuade them is the best response.
@Utopiana
Chinese students and supporters hung a democracy protest banner from the Melbourne Uni bridge over Swanston Street in solidarity with the
#Sitong
Bridge banner protest in Beijing and in solidarity with protesters and workers standing up for their rights in China.
Whatever happens tonight we need to build a refugee movement that is 10 times stronger. We are up against the calculated racist power of the state. We need our own power ... union power and masses on the streets. Join your nearest refugee action group.
#hometobilo
The Australian government must grant permanent visas and increase the refugee intake from Afghanistan.
An important statement from
@rac_sydney
Read it here:
Today marks eight years since the Rudd govt declared no refugees arriving by boat would settle in Australia - a decision weaponised by the Liberals.
Hundreds remain in detention suffering needlessly in misery.
Enough. Free them all.
#8YearsTooLong
#freetherefugees
Merri-bek Council in Naarm/Melbourne has passed a motion condemning the genocide in Gaza and agreeing to fly the Palestinian flag.
400 residents rallied in support of the motion before the meeting.
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Fantastic news that 27 refugees from the Park Hotel in Melbourne and 17 from MITA are walking free today. 🥳🥳🥳🥳
Protest by the refugees and the movement works. The government is under huge pressure.
Keep up the fight!
#GameOver
#freetherefugees
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